Wednesday, July 13, 2011

1950's week - day 4

One of the joys of our household in the 1950's was a ham for Sunday dinner. Sometimes it was an Easter ham, sometimes a Christmas ham. It was never a 4th of July ham! LOLI don't cook great big hams like this. It's too much for just Peter and me. There's another version not shown here that involved studding the ham with whole cloves. Gosh we loved ham. And, like turkey, some of the best of it was the sandwiches the next day.I'm not posting a recipe. You can find them via Google by the hundreds. I just wanted to share a bit of nostalgia. Spiral sliced? Did not exist in the 50's.On another topic, I've shared my discovery of something via my keyboard. It turns out others knew about this already. Many of the blogs I read have type sizes I find difficult to read. I don't know how I found this out, but if you press Ctrl/+ (you don't need to do upper case for that) the text gets larger. Hooray!

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Great tip! I bet there are a lot of people that don't know about it. I was never that wild about ham just on a plate with mashed potatoes and veggies...but the next days ham sandwiches were the bomb! I used to tell my mom the reason I didn't eat the ham when she made it for dinner was because I was saving for sandwiches the next day!! lol

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